“All of the iPod’s competitors put together have made only a small dent in its dominance. When will it occur to someone to fight innovation with innovation — to think different?
Samsung’s new YP-K5 adopts just this strategy. It’s a music player, all right, of the Microsoft (Windows-only) persuasion. That is, it can’t play songs from Apple’s online iTunes Store, but it does play songs you buy from any of the PlaysForSure online stores like Rhapsody, Napster or Yahoo Music. (You can buy songs for $1 each from such stores, or rent as many songs as you like for a flat monthly fee of $15 or so; when you stop paying, you lose your entire collection”…
